A blog sharing information about materials presented to children on climate, highlighting those intended to frighten or mislead, and those which seek to inform and inspire rather than to recruit, even the very young, for an ill-founded political campaign around the threat of CAGW. A campaign which is irresponsible, destructive, divisive, and degrading.

'First, the non-climatic effects of carbon dioxide are dominant over the climatic effects and are overwhelmingly beneficial. Second, the climatic effects observed in the real world are much less damaging than the effects predicted by the climate models, and have also been frequently beneficial.'

Help save them. Screw up your own life. Turn your back on generations of hard-won effort and industrial progress. Feel bad about just about everything, Just look at what's happening to the polar bears. Turn off lights. Hassle your parents. Be afraid of global warming. Blame humanity for it.

Example here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2007/04/15/will-polar-bears-be-ok.html'Sean Hussey and his twin sister, Erin, are only 9 years old, but they
already know all about global warming. And they're worried, very
worried. Teachers at their Hillsborough, Calif., school have shown them
pictures of melting glaciers. Sean fears that polar bears will be left
homeless. "I like polar bears a lot," he explains. Erin is also
concerned about what she calls "the animal side" of climate change.
"There are lots of animals that shouldn't die," she says. "The humans
are the ones who are causing it." '

Meanwhile, the polar bears are doing OK.

What does that tell you about the scamsters of climate, class? Pretty shoddy? Yup - that's about right.

For a sensible view, one based on reality and not the wishful fantasising of malevolent zealots, here are some observations by Matt Ridley. Extract:

'In other words, the claim that polar bear populations are declining
at all, let alone due to climate change, is a manufactured myth,
designed for media consumption and with very little basis in fact. That
it works all too well is demonstrated by an episode in 2011 involving
Sir David Attenborough. In a television series the brilliant television
presenter, unwisely diverging from neutral natural history, had asserted
that the polar bear is already in trouble. When challenged by Lord
Lawson that ‘the polar bear population has not been falling, but
rising’, Sir David responded. He was quoted by The Daily Telegraph as
saying ‘Most [polar bear populations] are in decline and just one is
increasing – for a number of factors – one being they have stopped
hunting…Lord Lawson is denying what the whole scientific community is
accepting and working at and it is extraordinary thing for him to do’.

Much as I admire and like both men, I have to say that the evidence
suggests that Lord Lawson’s account is closer to the truth. The
International Union for the Conservation of Nature estimated in 1966
that there were 10,000 polar bears in the world; in 2006, the same
source estimated that the population had risen to 20,000-25,000 bears.
Had Sir David examined the text on the PBSG’s website he would have
found that all but one of the eight sub-population declines he cited
were in fact based on ‘beliefs’ or future projections. As demonstrated
by another recent mistake in another television series, this time an
exaggerated claim for temperature change in Africa, Sir David is not
being well served by his BBC researchers these days.

Zac Unger documents in his recent book Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye,
how polar bear ‘decline’ is now a large and lucrative industry and in
places like Churchill, Manitoba, organisations like Polar Bears
International cynically use the imagined plight of the bears to raise
money, and push propaganda at young people about changing their
lifestyles and those of their parents.'

His writing was inspired by a study made by a polar bear expert Susan Crockford. It is available for download here at the Global Warming Policy Foundation site.

Her study is entitled '10 Good Reasons Not To Worry About Polar Bears'

That would make a good title for a display on the classroom wall would it not? The children would be pleased. Why not help put their troubled minds at rest?

Note added later on 17 March: The Heartland Institute in the States has produced an advertising-hoarding that could provide ideas for a wall display although it is perhaps too political for the classroom itself::

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This displays a forecast made by Scafetta using a simple model combining various cycles which have been observed in temperatures, together with some 'adjustment for global warming'. His forecast has the light blue background. An IPCC 2007 'projection' is shown with a green background. The bold red-then-blue line is the HadCRUT calculation of a global mean temperature, with blue line connecting the most recent results. (Source: Tallbloke's blog). A 2016 paper by Scafetta: http://www.iieta.org/sites/default/files/Journals/HTECH/IJHT.34.S2_35.pdf